Lev Mikhailovich Sibiryakov ( 1869 or 1870 , Polonnoye - 1938 , Warsaw ) - opera artist (bass), vocal teacher.
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| Birth name | Leib Moiseevich Spivak |
| Full name | Lev Mikhailovich Sibiryakov |
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| Professions | opera singer , music teacher |
| Singing voice | bass |
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Biography
A native of a Jewish family from the town of Polonny Volyn province (now the city of Khmelnitsky region , Ukraine ). In childhood, he was a singer in the choir of the synagogue. He began to seriously engage in singing in Odessa, where, thanks to a successful marriage, he became financially secure. Here he began his stage career. In the 1890s, he studied and trained in Italy, performed under the name Leopoldo Spivakkini at the theaters “San Carlo” (Naples) and “ La Scala ”. The Italian vocal school defined his further performing manner.
Since the late 1890s, he has been a soloist in various opera houses of the Russian Empire, including the Kiev Opera , the Bolshoi Theater , the Baku, Tiflis, and Kharkov operas. The voice of exceptional beauty won the singer wide acclaim. He was invited to the Mariinsky Theater , where the soloist performed in 1902-1904 and 1909-1921; to become an actor of the imperial scene, he had to be baptized and took the maiden name of his wife - Sibiryakov. But the singer did not forget about his origin and in 1910 gave a concert in his native place, where he performed, along with opera arias, Russian, Ukrainian and Jewish songs.
Repeatedly went on tour in the Russian Empire and abroad; sang in Boston, London, Berlin. Over 450 vocal works performed by him were recorded on phonograph records.
In the early 1920s, L. M. Sibiryakov emigrated to Poland. There he continued to tour, performed in many cities in Europe and America. In the 1930s - teacher, professor at the Warsaw Conservatory . According to the most common version, he died in Warsaw in 1938. There is, however, an assertion that his life path ended in 1942 in Antwerp.
Creativity
Leo Sibiryakov’s vocal data were excellent: his voice sounded with equal power in all registers, had a pleasant timbre and was well-crafted thanks to Italian training - “soft, melodious, like a string of first-class cello” [1] , although the singer from childhood to old age the southern accent remained. At the same time, the performer, like many singers of the Italian school, attached secondary importance to acting, gesture, facial expressions, did not seek to create full-fledged dramatic images. All this replaced him with the actual vocals. “The element of a beautifully educated, groomed, amazingly cultivated sound brought to Sibiryakov’s singing that imagery and, in some places, poetry, which sometimes convinced the listener no less than the well-thought-out, excellent singing of the artist with a mediocre voice” [2] .
Selected Parties
- Ivan Susanin
- Gremin ("Eugene Onegin" by P. Tchaikovsky)
- Vladimir Galitsky (“Prince Igor” by A. Borodin)
- Miller (The Mermaid by A. Dargomyzhsky)
- Pimen (Boris Godunov by M. Mussorgsky)
- Dosipheus (Khovanshchina by M. Mussorgsky)
- Vasily Sobakin (The Tsar’s Bride by N. Rimsky-Korsakov)
- Varyazhsky guest ("Sadko" by N. Rimsky-Korsakov)
- Don Basilio (The Barber of Seville by J. Rossini)
- Mephistopheles (“Faust” S. Gounod)
- Nilakanta ("Lakme" L. Delibes)
- Cardinal de Bronny ("The Jewelery" by F. Halevi)
- Ramfis ("Aida" by J. Verdi)
- Wotan (The Gold of the Rhine and Valkyrie by R. Wagner)
- Henry Ptitselov ("Lohengrin" R. Wagner)
- German (“Tannhauser” by R. Wagner)
Interesting Facts
Singing Sibiryakova was fond of Mikhail Bulgakov , who in his youth dreamed of an opera career. The sister of the writer Nadezhda Bulgakova-Zemskaya said: “On his desk, a gymnasium student, there was a photographic card of the artist of the Kiev opera Lev Sibiryakova - with an inscription that my brother proudly gave me to read:“ Dreams sometimes come true ” [3] .
Notes
- ↑ Levik S. Notes of the opera singer. - Moscow, 1962. - P.200.
- ↑ Ibid. - S.202.
- ↑ Memories of Mikhail Bulgakov. - Moscow: Sov. writer, 1988 .-- P.59.
Literature
- Lisenko Ivan . Vocabulary spіvakіv Ukraine. - Kyiv, 1997. - P.275.
- Bentsianov Semyon . Leo Sibiryakov - the famous singer from Polonnoy // "Jewish Observer". - 2007. - October. - No. 20/159.
- Sibiryakov L. M. [with photo] // “Siberian Trading Newspaper”. No. 88. April 23, 1913. Tyumen.
Links
- Sibiryakov Lev // Domestic singers. 1750-1917: Dictionary / Pruzhansky A. M. - Ed. 2nd fix and add. - M. , 2008.
- Audio recordings of L. Sibiryakova.
- Concert-sketch "Leo Sibiryakov" cycle M.Malkova "Luminaries of the Russian opera scene."